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Steorn Ltd.
Company typePrivate Limited
IndustryInformation and energy technology
FoundedDublin, Ireland (2000)
HeadquartersDocklands Innovation Park, East Wall Road Dublin 3, Ireland
Key people
Sean McCarthy (Chief Executive Officer)
Roger Hatfield (Chief Financial Officer)
Michael Daly (Chief Operations Officer)
Michael Moriarty (Corporate Finanace and Strategy)
Richard Walshe (Marketing Manager)
ProductsNone (R&D based company)
RevenueUndisclosed
Number of employees
less then 20
Websitewww.steorn.com

Steorn Ltd. is a company based in Ireland that claims to have developed a free energy technology. In August 2006 Steorn placed a full-page advertisement[1] in the Economist magazine at a cost of GBP £85,200 (approx. €125,000 or USD $160,000)[2], issuing a challenge to scientists to review their invention, what appears to be a perpetual motion machine. Steorn claims that their technology is patent pending.

The company

According to the Irish Examiner, Steorn was founded in 2000.[3] In May 2006, ThePost.ie reported that Steorn was a a former dot.com business, which was at that time researching "kinetic battery" technology as well as creating ecommerce websites for customers. They had also recently raised about €2.5 million from "high net worth individuals".[4]

When Steorn was created in 2000 their company's description was,

"Steorn is a leading Intellectual Property (IP) research and development organisation. Founded in 2000, Steorn has developed cutting-edge technology solutions in areas such as optical disc analysis and plastic card fraud prevention. The company is currently engaged in the development of its own proprietary battery substitution technology."

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Now according to Steorn's website,

"The Steorn team brings together a wealth of experience from diverse industries including: Energy, Engineering and Information Technology. This unique skill-base has been instrumental in delivering many complex projects and technologies. [...] The company has been instrumental in the development of core technologies that address counterfeit crime in areas such as plastic card fraud and optical disc fraud. The company has also provided forensic and expert witness services to British, Irish and international law enforcement agencies."[6]

The invention

Steorn has claimed that within hours of ad in The Economist they been contacted by hundreds of scientists world-wide and many thousands of other interested people. [7]

According to Steorn's website, "Steorn’s technology produces free, clean and constant energy. This provides a significant range of benefits, from the convenience of never having to refuel your car or recharge your mobile phone, to a genuine solution to the need for zero emission energy production." Steorn's CEO Sean McCarthy stated in an RTE radio interview that, "What we have developed is a way to construct magnetic fields so that when you travel round the magnetic fields, starting and stopping at the same position, you have gained energy, [...] The energy isn't being converted from any other source such as the energy within the magnet. It's literally created. Once the technology operates it provides a constant stream of clean energy."

Steorn claims that their invention has already been assessed by independent scientists, and found to work, but that none of these scientists were willing to publish their results.

Steorn acknowledges that their claimed technology appears to violate the principle of conservation of energy, a fundamental physical law. In effect, Steorn's claimed invention is equivalent, as with all free energy technologies, to a perpetual motion machine of the first kind, a device which is generally considered impossible to create. Given this, and the long history of hoaxes involving previous perpetual motion claims, such claims have hitherto met with skepticism from the scientific community.

For this reason, major patent offices such as the U.S. Patent Office, European Patent Office and the UK Patent Office have a policy of not issuing patents for perpetual motion devices.[8][9][10][11] Steorn have stated that, because of this patent office policy, they are not filing for a patent for the whole technology, but are filing patents for its components individually, none of which of themselves constitute a perpetual motion machine.[12]

References

  • ""Irish company challenges scientists to test 'free energy' technology"". AFP (via Yahoo! News). August 18, 2006. Retrieved 2006-08-19. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  1. ^ Ad in the Economist
  2. ^ ""Advertising Rates £"" (PDF). Advertising Information. The Economist. 2006. Retrieved 2006-08-19. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  3. ^ ""Wanted: scientists to test free energy technology"". Irish Examiner. 20 August 2006. Retrieved 2006-08-20. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  4. ^ Daly, Gavin (May 21, 2006). ""Firm strives to extend mobile battery lifespans"". ThePost.IE. Retrieved 2006-08-19. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  5. ^ ""Steorns previous website"". Google Cache. Retrieved 2006-08-19.
  6. ^ ""History"". Steorn. Retrieved 2006-08-19.
  7. ^ ""Scientists flock to test 'free energy' discovery"". Guardian Unlimited. 20 August 2006. Retrieved 2006-08-20. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  8. ^ ""What is a Patent?" (section titled "Be capable of industrial application")". UK Patent Office. 30 September 2004. Retrieved 2006-08-19. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help) "Articles or processes alleged to operate in a manner clearly contrary to well-established physical laws, such as perpetual motion machines, are regarded as not having industrial application."
  9. ^ ""706.03(a) Rejections Under 35 U.S.C. 101 [R-3] - 700 Examination of Applications: II. Utility"". Manual of Patent Examining Procedure. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. October 2005. Retrieved 2006-08-19. "A rejection on the ground of lack of utility includes the more specific grounds of inoperativeness, involving perpetual motion. A rejection under 35 U.S.C. 101 for lack of utility should not be based on grounds that the invention is frivolous, fraudulent or against public policy."
  10. ^ ""Models, Exhibits, Specimens"". U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Retrieved 2006-08-19. "A working model may be requested in the case of applications for patent for alleged perpetual motion devices."
  11. ^ ""Guidelines for Examination C-IV, 4.1: Industrial Application"". European Patent Office. Retrieved 2006-08-20.
  12. ^ ""Technology Issues: Patent Application Viewable Online" (discussion board)". Steorn. ongoing. Retrieved 2006-08-19. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)

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